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National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine head Artem Sytnyk speaks with the Kyiv Post on Feb. 18, 2020.Photo by Kostyantyn ChernichkinPopularon social media The Verkhovna Rada’s law enforcement committee on April 28 supported a bill that will allow the dismissal of Artem Sytnyk, the head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). The bill may be considered by the Rada on
Read morehttps://meduza.io/impro/PYVk1qT6ZghkkKV6DrDxtwhYXi3RIURVotyyr1KRP54/fill/650/0/ce/1/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWR1/emEuaW8vaW1hZ2Uv/YXR0YWNobWVudHMv/aW1hZ2VzLzAwNS80/NjIvNjEwL29yaWdp/bmFsL1hpWEI2THN6/ZDVUNHFXZjd0Mk42/VUEuanBn.webp An advocacy group of Russian doctors has launched a website with a crowdsourced “in memoriam” list of the health workers who have died in Russia during the coronavirus epidemic. The list already includes more than 70 names — far more than Russian officials have acknowledged. Meduza special correspondent Pavel Merzlikin spoke to Moscow cardiologist Alexey Erlikh, one of the advocacy group’s creators, to
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UkraineAlert by Solomiia Bobrovska The tide of history ebbs and flows, with decades of relative stability interspersed by periods of rapid and dramatic change. We may now be entering one such period, with the disruptive role of the coronavirus crisis creating new realities across the planet. This is particularly true of the former Soviet world, where the crash in energy
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Article by: Yuriy Onyshchenko France, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the United States – these are by far not all the countries where Ukrainian Antonov aircraft, including the gigantic “Mriya” (“Dream”) have delivered medical masks, protective suits and equipment to fight the pandemic. On April 14, ahead of a video conference by NATO Defense Ministers, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg commented
Read moreDon’t know if any of you guys have seen this or been on the site? https://www.quora.com/q/ymdupqkjylglecja Informative, entertaining and pro-Ukrainian. Meanwhile, here’s something of a mix.
Read moreThe Cabinet of Ministers has withdrawn a submission on the appointment of Mikheil Saakashvili as Vice Prime Minister for reform from the Verkhovna Rada. This was reported on Facebook by chief editor of Censor.NET Yuriy Butusov. “The appointment of Mikheil Saakashvili in the Servant of the People faction was blocked. The high-profile story of the appointment of Saakashvili ended in
Read more28.04.2020 10:52 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the price of natural gas for households shrank by another 15% in April 2020 and has become the lowest in the past four years. He said this in a video address on Monday, April 27, according to an Ukrinform correspondent. “In April 2020, the price of gas for the population decreased
Read more28.04.2020 15:22 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a bill introducing amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine on the terms of sale of agricultural land, which was approved by the Verkhovna Rada on March 31, 2020, the Office of the President has reported. “This is a historic moment for all Ukrainians and for me personally. Ukraine has
Read moreThe officials of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) documented the fact of illegal detention of a sergeant of the Ukrainian State Border Service by representatives of the FSB of the Russian Federation on the administrative border with the annexed Crimea, reported the press service of the SBU. According to law enforcement officials, representatives of the Russian special services, using violence and
Read moreFederal Security Service (FSB) Col. Gen. Andrei Burlaka is believed to be the highest-ranking Russian official linked to the investigation into the downing of Flight MH17, according to a joint investigation by the investigative outlet Bellingcat and Russia’s The Insider news website published Tuesday. Dutch-led investigators have so far named four pro-Russian separatists as suspects in criminal proceedings into the deaths of 298 people
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A second Russian doctor has fallen from a hospital building in a week as the country’s health system continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, with authorities ruling her death a tragic accident. Natalia Lebedeva, the chief EMS officer at a cosmonaut training center outside Moscow, plunged to her death Friday from the window of a hospital room where she
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The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine has discovered new evidence of the Russian military presence in Ukraine. According to the Monitoring Mission, on 10 March, an SMM mini-UAV spotted three brand new Russian electronic warfare systems RB-636 Svet-KU, RB-341V Leer-3 and R-934B Sinitsa at a compound in the southern outskirts of Luhansk city, 13 km from the contact line
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Ukrainian MPs are expected to gather in the coming days to vote on the appointment of former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili as the country’s new Deputy Prime Minister for Reforms. President Zelenskyy’s surprise move to recruit the headline-grabbing Georgian caught everyone off guard. It is a huge gamble that has already succeeded in temporarily overshadowing the coronavirus crisis and the
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The mayor of Prague has said he is under heightened police protection the day after Czech media reported on an alleged Russian plot to poison him. Zdenek Hrib confirmed the news in a Monday interview with the independent Ekho Moskvy radio station. On Sunday, the Czech news website Respekt, citing anonymous intelligence sources, reported that an individual carrying Russian diplomatic documents and
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